Mayor says no money in budget to fix cyclone-hit beaches

The Mackay Mayor admits it will be a period of time before any major works could be done to repair storm damage to the region's beaches.

Most of the area's 31 beaches suffered wind and wave damage from Tropical Cyclone Dylan.

Some beaches have lost metres of foreshore, with large escarpments in some areas.

Mayor Deirdre Comerford says there is no money in the budget for repairs but engineering assessments will continue.

"We still care about our community and we still want to know the state of play," she said.

"Your foreshore lines, your tidal marks, they can be reassessed and what was under ownership now changes with council so you do have to keep painting the picture of the foreshore even if not much can change physically.

"This is a very tight budget we're in, so there's no budget amendments that could be done in this current financial year.

"The sort of dollars you talk about here doesn't go very far ... if you had millions of dollars, it doesn't solve all the problems.

"Council's not in position to put any money on the table but that doesn't mean that we're not prepared to have the conversation and go through the journey with the residents.

"There is a walkway and now all the sand has been eroded and it's sitting out there in the middle of nowhere, of course we have to remove that, so we have to make safe and good examples like that but beyond that, that's where our capacity it really limited."

She says it is unlikely funds will be available in next year's budget either.